Just create the thing you want to create. Because who's going to stop you? Oh, it's you yourself? Well you can't let that bastard win, can you?

Hi there, @zeldaelmo here!

Zelinktines is a casual zelink event in February.

Choose a prompt of your liking, get creative with it and post it on the prompt date! Art, stories, music, moodboards, whatever you feel inspired to!

Everyone can participate! We recommend picking one or two prompts but of course, we'll stop no one who wants to do more. Just take care of yourself!

To make it easier for us to reblogs, tag us ( @zelinktines24 ) when you post! There will also be an Ao3 collection in February.

NSFW content is allowed. Please blur NSFW art with the 'mature' feature and hide explicit writing under the cut here on Tumblr (more info here).

If you have a question, send an ask!

Have fun!

Many thanks to the team @aquaticpal, @itcantbe, and @deiliamedlini for their support!

Twenty-Fourth Day of Gift-Giving

Twenty-Four Touches

24 Days of Gift-Giving

Thank you all for the support the last year. It has meant a lot, truely.

2023 fics:

FETH/Setleth-Thunder in Our Hearts multichapter 4/?

LOZ/TOTK/Zelink-Magnificently CursedMultichapter 2/?

FETH/Setleth + Flayn-The Girl from Mars

FEE/Alear x Ivy- It Makes Such an Almighty Sound

FEE/Alear x Ivy-What is Love

FEE/Alear x Ivy-Fractured Moonlight

LOZ/BOTW/Zelink-Sparks Fly

LOZ/TOTK/Zelink-led only by the stars

LOZ/TOTK/Zelink-Magnificently Cursed

UxU/Shen x Mui-blossoming alone over you

LOZ/TOTK/Zelink-you still would've been mine

LOZ/SS/Zelink-you're always out of reach

UxU/Shen x Mui-i could stare at your back all day

UxU/Shen x Mui- I know I've kissed you before

UxU/Rip x Latla-but it's been promised to another

UxU/Shen x Mui-Suddenly, I'm Feeling Brave

Anonymously tell me how you feel about me. I can't reply, I just have to read it and post it.

someone apologized for commenting late… 2 months after the fic was posted 😭😭 girl that’s EARLY thats fresh

times it’s appropriate to comment on a fic:

- if it was written sometime between 10000 years ago and 3 seconds ago

times it’s NOT appropriate to comment on a fic:

-if you’re gonna be mean 🥺

Angry Confessions

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Writing tips for long fics that helped me that no one asked for.

1.) Don't actually delete content from your WIP unless it is minor editing - instead cut it and put it in a secondary document. If you're omitting paragraphs of content, dialog, a whole scene you might find a better place for it later and having it readily available can really save time. Sometimes your idea was fantastic, but it just wasn't in the right spot.

2.) Stuck with wording the action? Just write the dialog then revisit it later.

3.) Stuck on the whole scene? Skip it and write the next one.

4.) Write on literally any other color than a white background. It just works. (I use black)

5.) If you have a beta, while they are beta-ing have them read your fic out loud. Yes, I know a lot of betas/writers do not have the luxury of face-timing or have the opportunity to do this due to time constraints etc but reading your fic out loud can catch some very awkward phrasing that otherwise might be missed. If you don't have a beta, you read it out loud to yourself. Throw some passion into your dialog, you might find a better way to word it if it sounds stuffy or weird.

6.) The moment you have an idea, write it down. If you don't have paper or a pen, EMAIL it to yourself or put it in a draft etc etc. I have sent myself dozens of ideas while laying down before sleep that I 10/10 forgot the next morning but had emailed them to myself and got to implement them.

7.) Remember - hits/likes/kudos/comments are not reflective of the quality of your fic or your ability to write. Most people just don't comment - even if they say they do, they don't, even if they preach all day about commenting, they don't, even if they are a very popular blog that passionately reminds people to comment - they don't comment (I know this personally). Even if your fic brought tears to their eyes and it haunted them for weeks and they printed it out and sent it to their friends they just don't comment. You just have to accept it. That being said - comment on the fic you're reading now, just do it, if you're 'shy' and that's why you don't comment the more you comment the better you'll get at it. Just do it.

8.) Remove unrealistic daily word count goals from your routine. I've seen people stress 1500 - 2000 words a day and if they don't reach that they feel like a failure and they get discouraged. This is ridiculous. Write when you can, but remove absurd goals. My average is 500 words a day in combination with a 40 hour a week job and I have written over 200k words from 2022-2023.

9.) There are dozens of ways to do an outline from precise analytical deconstruction that goes scene by scene to the minimalist bullet point list - it doesn't matter which one you use just have some sort of direction. A partial outline is better than no outline.

10.) Write for yourself, not for others. Write the fic you know no one is going to read. Write the fic that sounds ridiculous. You will be so happy you put it out in the world and there will be people who will be glad it exists.

I haven't abandoned this story. I just put it on the back burner for now. The story is just on a small vacation. It is currently out of office. It can't come to the phone right now. It just fell under my bed to sleep with the monsters. It never left my head. It is everywhere - except on paper.

“everyone is going to hate it” someone will love it. someone will reach out to you and tell you it changed their life. someone will hold it close and treasure it forever in a way you can’t even understand. keep going